Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Which tablet PC to buy - Cheap tablets in india – Tablet PC options

World
has great history of revolution and revolution is continuous process. Today is
also no exception to revolution. This revolution is of Tablet PC. The tablet PC
revolution is spreading like wild fire in India.

After
tremendous success of Apple iPad-2; other companies like Samsung, HTC brought
tablets in market which was giving healthy competition to iPad-2. However in
Indian tablet PC market; these tablets were costing above 20000 rupees.
Needless to say, these costly tablets were not suitable in terms of cost for
students, teachers and other middle class community.

After
identifying this business gap, Indian pure players such as Reliance, Bharti
Airtel, Akash, iBall came for the rescue and these companies successfully
brought tablet PC at half price of iPad, Samsung and HTC tablets.

The
obvious questions that come to mind about cheap tablets PC’s are–

1.Tablet PC quality

2.Reliability
of cheap tablets

3.Advantages and disadvantages of cheapest tablets

Following
information will help you to decide which tablet PC to buy.

Let’s
first understand basic questions like -

1.What is tablet PC?

2.Tablets are mobile phones or computers?

What is tablet PC –

Assume
the world of few years back, and you are travelling for a long journey. People
had to carry heavy laptops in their travel if they wish to read 10-15 books.
This was quite inconvenient during journey. Also smartphones had small screen
on which people could not read more than 1 hour as it creates strain on your
eyes. To overcome on this problem tablet Pc are introduced in the market.
Tablet PC is a gadget which combines the features of smartphone and laptop and
it is very easy to carry. Tablet Pc’s are bigger than smartphone whereas somewhat
smaller in size and weight than laptop which makes it very handy.

Use of Tablet PC –

As
said it is combination of smartphone and laptop, hence you can use it from many
things for which smartphone and laptops are used. For example, reading book,
using office applications, internet surfing, listening songs, watching video,
social networking, calling etc.

Although
all important features are provided in tablet PC; you should keep one thing in
the back mind that, tablets is not desktop computer, so hardcore work like
editing cannot be done on tablets.

Low cost Tablets –

You
will see heavy competition in tablet market today. The obvious reason is,
companies are launching tablets which very cost effective. If you review all
low end tablets, you will immediately notice some common features. All tablets
are having size as 7 inches.

Every
cheap tablet in India has old android version 2.1 or 2.2. The size of inbuilt
memory in these cheap tablets is very low but can be extended. Needless to say,
user will have to always carry portable hard disks. Many cheap tablets imply
resistive touch technology for their touch screens.

Resistive
touch technology uses resistive material on the screen. Because of which User
will have to use pointed object like stylus in order to operate screen.
Capacitive touch screen can be operated with fingers. In short if you are very
fond of stylus or nails then you can have resistive touch screen based tablets.
On the other hand if you are very fond of using fingers everywhere then go for
capacitive touch screen based tablets. Resistive touch is cheaper than
capacitive touch. This is the reason why many cheap tablets use resistive
touch.

When
you are planning to buy a cheaper tablet then you should consider some data
points about your requirement, money budge. Don’t purchase tablet just for sake
of having tablet.

Let’s have a look at
available cheap tablets in India –

Reliance 3G Tab –

Reliance
3G tab is priced just at rupees 12500 in Indian market. This is the first
cheapest tablet in India which provides tablet facilities and telecom services.

·Another big disadvantage is connectivity. With
Reliance 3G tab, you can only connect to Reliance network.

In
short Reliance 3G tab is good in terms of price. If you are willing to use lot
of applications with low budget then Reliance 3G tab is a good option.

Beetel Magiq –

Bharti
Airtel has launched “Beetel Magiq” tablet which is even cheaper than Reliance
3G tab. Beetel Magiq is available at 9000 rupees. Let’s review Beetel Magiq
features –

·Manufactured by HUWAIE Telecommunications, a Chinese
company

·7 inches resistive touchscreen with only 500 gm
weight; making it extremely easy and handy to carry

·Uses android version 2.2

·2 mega pixels camera in rear and front side for
video calling.

·Supports 3G communication. Another strong point is,
Beetel Magiq has regular SIM card slot which makes it very useful and can be
coupled with regular SIM cards.

·Processor is of high capability – 1 GHz.

·2GB internal memory with extendable limit upto
16GB.

·Unique selling Point of Beetel Magiq tab is in
built KickStand. Beetel Magiq KickStand proves extremely useful while video
calling.

·Disadvantage is resistive touch screen. The
response time of the screen is extremely slow and device responds to touch
command late.

·Look is quite old one and they did not take much
effort on making it look stylish.

Lacs Magnum Pepper –

Lakshmi
Access Communication System has launched 4 new tablets range in the market. These
tablets from LACS vary in price from 6000 to 34000 rupees. Let’s have review of
Lacs Magnum Pepper basic tablet –

·Yet again manufactured in china and designed in
Laxmi Access Communication. Magnum Pepper really has stylish and attractive
look.

·These tablets can prove boring experience due to
its resistive touch technology.

·Only strong point is cost. However, you will have
to decide whether it is really worth of it.

Aakash Tablet –

AAkash
is world’s cheapest tablet PC developed jointly by London based company
Datawind and Indian Institute of Technology. Aakash will have price around 3000
rupees only. Aakash is designed by IIT students. I must congratulate those
great minds because the look of Aakash tablet is extremely professional. Let’s
review Aakash features –

·7 inches resistive screen. Aakash is extremely poor
in case of touch technology. Tech savvy young generation in India will hardly
go behind this tab. The Aakash tab is manly targeted for students.

·Yet another cheap tablets working on android
version 2.2

·Aakash has many inbuilt aps available even if android
does not have market place.

·Aakash disappoints to great extent when you look
for processor. Aakash processor is of only 366Mhz. It will be hardly fast in
its operations, I doubt.

·There is no facility for SIM card in Aakash tablet.
It can be only used as e-book reader or for internet surfing.

·Internal memory is 2GB and can be extended to 32
GB.

Hope
above information helps you all to determine your Tablet Pc requirement and
available cheap tablets in market.

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